KEEPING IT CLEAN


I recently asked another firm to e-mail a copy of a long document for revision by me to save time and paper.



Helpfully, it did so. Unfortunately, the firm had prepared it using an original draft from another transaction entirely. The version that appeared on my screen showed the original document, full details of the other totally unrelated transaction from which it derived, and all the amendments to fit the draft for the present transaction.



The software package, Word, has some surprising capabilities, so the moral seems to be to exercise caution and to make sure you have a completely clean copy of a document before e-mailing it.



John Gudgeon, PT Ryan & Co, King's Lynn, Norfolk